Gail Hapke is a poet, blogger, writer, editor, wife, mom, and college-level writing teacher who is fascinated by the offbeat, eccentric narratives that for her best reflect the surreal side of life on Earth. She is 55 years old and interested in virtually everything, but especially the vagaries of language and literature, art, medicine, nature, music, history, and all imaginable levels of human culture -- with an emphasis on "vagaries." Some might call her eclectic, others might call her easily distracted by shiny objects. She has been married for nearly thirty years and has two children (26 and 15).

Interests: “Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.” — Eric Hoffer

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No indeed you are not Craig. You, Jake, Diana, and Jonathan were the first Terroristas.

I am tinkering with the logo for SIOA -- Stop the Islamization of America -- with help from Big Fur Hat, whom I consider to be the in-house Atlas-artist. J'adore da hat! I love this logo -- because it evokes the LOVE icon, and I love love. I fight for love! Art! Music! Beauty! The I askew ...

I am tinkering with the logo for SIOA -- Stop the Islamization of America -- with help from Big Fur Hat, whom I consider to be the in-house Atlas-artist. J'adore da hat! I love this logo -- because it evokes the LOVE icon, and I love love. I fight for love! Art! Music! Beauty! The I askew ...

Check out Google Scholar for articles. Here's one:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:9KgHR6oNLH4J:citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.27.6218%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf+do-support&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh9oW0HOSib2tJNd0qYTlRJh1CvVurUTxN3CvOJQuU0GY8f8rZ-EnSOo9d6em_BA1-NY7X_kpgReO0mpX9Bvt_DrBOPDVa1VzuSx6yFPTpYfVqQdMXJDS9IbBz9aMIF7rlGzpFf&sig=AHIEtbRgH_6Ewbv9LY9Ixft-xbIjWTBH5w
There are also lots of books about English verb structure.

If you went back about 600 years or so, you'd find that the word "do" was a reasonably unconflicted, straightforward, happy little verb, which most of the time did nothing more than act as a synonym for "perform," "act," or "accomplish." We still use it that way of course. We say "Do the equatio...

Every time I see BHO sign another bill, I am fascinated at how he holds a pen. He holds a pen like an illiterate. Have you seen it? Like a little kid who just learned how to write and he signs a scribble. He makes an O instead of an X. Just sayin.

This is seriously sick. O-propaganda from the New York Times. Seriously sick shiz. We are under cultural siege. The Times and their media comrades will sell their mother to ram through socialized medicine. Oganda -- the country that used to be America.